U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press after holding meetings at Camp David on January 6, 2018 in Thurmont, Maryland.Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images

The Golden Globe Awards are so predictable, very boozy affairs (unlike the Oscars) with the usual elitist Hollywood crowd (like the Oscars), and with only the rarest of upsets changing the natural course of cinematic and television history in the uber-saturated world of infotainment.

Sunday night was no real exception.

But what about the Fakies?

The Fakies are new. They were supposed to happen at 5 p.m. Monday when U.S. President Donald J. Trump promised to tweet out his “losers” for the “most dishonest & corrupt media awards of the year.”

Then, on mid-Sunday afternoon, he suddenly punted his Fakies Awards down the road to Jan. 17, naturally via a tweet.

The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming Monday. The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!

“The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17, rather than this coming Monday,” he tweeted.

“The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!”

No explanation; no nothing.

What a putz!

It was Stephen Colbert, host of CBS’s The Late Show, who apparently coined the title “Fakies,” and he so desperately wants to be on Trump’s list that he actually begged for it on a Times Square billboard.

All for ratings, of course.

There is no sense, however, trying to predict exactly who and what the unpredictable Donald Trump will name in his “awards.”

It would be like trying to predict North Korea’s version of Dr. Strangelove’s next taunt of America, or whether his next nuclear missile test fizzles out like a damp sparkler.

Fakies, of course, will undoubtedly go to anti-Trumpsters like CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post.

As for individual awards? Who knows?

Over the last few days, a firestorm has been whipping through Washington over Trump’s former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, pissing in the president’s sandbox in a book that is downright nasty.

Called Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House, and authored by political fact-stretcher Michael Wolff, the book is now flying off the shelves and sucking up bandwidth through copious e-book downloads.

The left-wing media in the United States, true to form, are going apoplectic over Trump’s Fakie Awards, which only shines more light on the fakery within their own precious world, and exposes just how thin their skins have become since their loss of presidential respect.

A few days ago, for example, the Boston Globe’s Michael Cohen wrote a column stating that Trump was “unwell” — as in losing his marbles.

This is the go-to position of the left, of course, because Trump appears to be winning too many of his battles, although few on the left write with the same effortless and prosaic flow as Michael Cohen.

“One can speculate on how to interpret Trump’s extraordinary impulsiveness, his limitless need for validation, his startling lack of empathy, his shameless dishonesty, his inability to separate fact from fiction, and his threadbare attention span,” writes Cohen.

“There have been hypotheses that he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder or some sort of cognitive decline.

“I have my suspicions but I am not a doctor,” Cohen continues. “But as a political observer, I feel comfortable in stating that none of this is normal and that to ignore Trump’s obvious signs of unfitness for office is to deny reality.

“Trump is not well,” he concludes. “This is the only thing we should be talking about in national politics.”

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